fusillade762:My local paper has taken to running (what I can only assume from the crude artwork) super-old Doonesbury strips that don't make any sense to me.

I read an interview a few weeks back where Gary said he was going to curate the best strips from the past that give insight to the characters and their development. If I gave two shiats worth of a fark, I could be arsed to look for the article right now, but fark it.

germ78:fusillade762: My local paper has taken to running (what I can only assume from the crude artwork) super-old Doonesbury strips that don't make any sense to me.

I read an interview a few weeks back where Gary said he was going to curate the best strips from the past that give insight to the characters and their development. If I gave two shiats worth of a fark, I could be arsed to look for the article right now, but fark it.

Alpha House is awesome...the only way they could make it better would be to figure out a way to spring Bill Murray's character from prison so he can cruise by and be awesome...maybe use him as a lobbyist since he's in prison for ethics issues already. :)

I have it on good authority, when Starbuck's finally stuck their toe in the tie-in water, they went HUGE with Doonesbury...Zonker blendeds, Doonesbury-emblazoned 'bucky mugs, the whole thing. It was an Edsel-sized failure, cost them a ton of dough, so they blew all the crap out quick. They refused to do co-branding on anything for years, when they finally eased back into it with Blue Note, Amazon & the like they made a mint, & realized far too late their problem was that nobody actually gives a fark about 'Doonesbury'

The paper's editorial staff traditionally has had a conservative slant.[5][6][7] The paper's last endorsement of a Democrat as a Presidential candidate, was for the re-election of Woodrow Wilson in 1916

Finding only one example really only helps to cement his argument. But I'm sure papers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The San Fransisco Chronicle, etc. are glad you think they slant to the right.

Soup4Bonnie:This makes me sad. I love to wait a few months and then catch up on the strip. I've been reading him since the late 70's. His stuff with veterans and PTSD is pretty touching.

Same here. The guy always had his finger on the pulse of the changing times. Hope he reboots and comes back strong in his new ventures. Would rather read old "Pogo" comics than his earliest stuff, though.